The Leader’s Guide to Standards: A Blue Print for Educational Equity and Excellence

Title: The Leader’s Guide to Standards: A Blue Print for Educational Equity and ExcellenceAuthor(s): Douglas B. ReevesPublisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San FranciscoISBN: 0787964026, Pages: 358, Year: 2002Search for book at Amazon.com

The relationship between standards-based learning and student
learning improvement has generated a number of issues. Many
teachers have been reluctant to embrace the standards-based
curriculum movement as a fundamental approach to the betterment of
education; instead they regard the standards as an administrative
imperative. Twenty years ago it was unthinkable that we would
see a major push for national and state standards. As Reeves notes
at the outset, over the past decade, many public schools in the
United States, and “throughout the world, have transformed
their approach to assessing student performance from the tradition
of comparing students to one another to comparing students to
academic standards” (p. xv).
However, many educators including administrators and teachers,
parents, legislators, and students have misunderstood the roles of
standards in relation to the improvement of students’
learning. In his book, Reeves tries to persuade educational leaders
to improve student learning and close the achievement gap by
adopting standards as a guide for planning, implementing, and
assessing the curriculum.
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Kim SongUniversity of MissouriE-mail AuthorKIM H. SONG is an Assistant Professor at University of Missouri – St. Louis in the College of Education, Division of Teaching and Learning. Her area of interest is standards-based performance assessment especially in the areas of social studies education, closing the achievement gap in teacher education programs, and electronic portfolio development. One of her recent publications is "Achievement gap in pre-service teachers in urban settings", with Christiansen, F., in Research in Education (2001).